Socialcam Vs. Viddy And The Curious Calculus Of Picking The Most Popular App

Sun, 06/24/2012 - 12:25 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

How do you decide if a new social app is worth investing your time and entrusting your content with? Here are three criterion you can use to determine which is most likely, in the words of Star Trek, to "live long and prosper."

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One of my favorite characters in TV history was Star Trek's "Spock". Yesterday, Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Died at 83. Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.

. As you all know, we live in an age of abundance when it comes to corrupt human garbage sitting in highly visible positions of public trust. I constantly lampoon as many as possible, but it is an unending task and there is a great deal of negativity that goes along with it.

Someone has definitively answered the question of whether we are a country united by "May the Force be with You" or "Live Long and Prosper." Movato's real estate blog recently tallied the percent of each state's population that "liked" each of the two film franchises on Facebook.

Sources TechCrunch has been in touch with report Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is in talks to acquire Periscope – a live streaming app that allows users to start a live video at any time and broadcast it to the people they follow or are having an online meeting with.

Today, you can translate almost any word, phrase or document by simply plugging it into a search engine. Microsoft, however, is envisioning a future where you'll be able to hold a conversation with anyone around the world without the obstacle of language barriers.

Earlier this decade, Paramount successfully rebooted the entire “Star Trek” universe as a blockbuster movie franchise. Great news for them, but the release of the second film, “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” on Blu-Ray disc is kind of crappy news for the obsessive fan. That’s because a dedicated special-feature-watcher has to collect at least two different copies of the disc.